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Society

My Beef With Captain Bunja Darboe

By Kinteh Too unsubstantiated and too late. I read through this piece and at the end of it, felt very disappointed with our former men in uniform. Firstly, it is very apologetic. Every second paragraph, begins with what Bunja dued to the man, followed by regrets about the reincarnation of his […]

News

GDC Leader Picks On Jammeh

The leader of Gambia Democratic Congress has refused to fall for the narrative that his new party is an offshoot of the ruling Alliance for Patriotic Re-orientation and Construction President Yahya Jammeh. Mamma Kandeh, a disgruntled former APRC candidate for Jimara constituency in the Upper River Region, described such a […]

Society

SI Denounces Gambian Opposition Leader’s Sentencing

   SI denounces the sentencing of opposition leader in The Gambia The Socialist International firmly denounces and condemns the sentencing of Ousainou Darboe, leader of the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) of Gambia, an SI member party, along with 18 other party members and sympathisers, to 3 years imprisonment, having been […]

Society

Toubab Who Diagnoses Yahya Jammeh

Since July 1994, Gambians have been debating whether their president needs psychiatric treatment. While the diaspora media openly write or state that Yahya Jammeh grapples with psychiatric problems, Gambians murmur in their homes for fear of being disappeared, chained or tortured to death. But one man has posted a video […]

Editorial

The Die Is Cast; What Next?

The conviction and subsequent sentencing of the opposition United Democratic Party leadership, supporters and opposition activists has again reminded us about the Jammeh regime’s callousness, cruelty and disrespect for human rights and the rule of law. The regime’s heartlessness have over and over gone over the roof. It has simply […]

Society

The Unbearable Burden of Yaya Jammeh

  The Unbearable Burden of Yaya Jammeh By Saul saidykhan If history is anything to go by, tomorrow, the cause of The Gambia’s ongoing needless tragedy Yaya Jammeh would be spending millions of Dollars to throw another outlandish party in celebrating his usurpation of power in our country for twenty-two […]

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How People’s Power Triumphs

By Bax I think the problem of the judiciary and the predicament of judicial officials, can better be understood when we examine it within the wider context of failures of the institutions of governance and try to figure out the underlying factors for such failings, rather than just look at […]